LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Berkswell and Balsall Common: lnwrberk1294
Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot class No 46144 'Honourable Artillery
Company' at the head of the 4:30pm Birmingham New Street to Euston express on
Sunday 15th June 1958. Mike Christensen writes, 'for your information, the
photograph shows an up train approaching Lavender Hall bridge, between the up
distant and up home signals at Berkswell.' Built as LMS No 6144 in November
1927 by the North British Locomotive Company, No 46144 was rebuilt with a
tapered boiler in the 1940s and lasted in service until January 1964 when was
withdrawn from Crewe North shed to be scrapped the same month at the adjacent
works.
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